cran

Name: cran, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kʁɑ̃\

/\kʁɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“cran” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,304
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 6
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entaille qu’on fait à un corps dur pour accrocher ou arrêter quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cran · cran · French

cran · rank #10,304 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #10,304
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-1 1 vowel
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 6 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH couramment

Nearest frequency peer: couramment (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

convocation

89,700
couramment

89,698
cran

89,697
crochet

89,696
dentaire

89,695
diamants

89,694

What this shows « cran » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cran vs cru

50% similar

cran vs cri

50% similar

cran vs CRS

0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cran
Property	Value
Headword	cran
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kʁɑ̃\
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#10,304
Misspellings tracked	6
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cran »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cranse place ici:

#10,304

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « couramment » (#10,303), « crochet » (#10,305), « dentaire » (#10,306). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cran » est au #10,304. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around cran (IPA \kʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,304 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cran, with forms such as "carn", "ccran", and "crann". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "cri", "CRS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cran, spelled C-R-A-N.

Definition

1
Entaille qu’on fait à un corps dur pour accrocher ou arrêter quelque chose.
2
Ondulation de la chevelure.
3
Petite cannelure faite sur un des côtés du corps de chaque lettre, pour que l’ouvrier puisse placer les caractères dans le sens convenable, lorsqu’il compose.
4
Carré de chocolat.
5
(Pas-de-Calais) Entaille dans une falaise faite par l’érosion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Faire un cran.
Le cran d’une arbalète.

This word in other languages

notch(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

carn
ccran
crann
crna
crran
rcan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cran - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "cran"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cran"?

"cran" is spelled C-R-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɑ̃\.

What does "cran" mean?

As a noun, "cran" means: Entaille qu’on fait à un corps dur pour accrocher ou arrêter quelque chose.

What words are commonly confused with "cran"?

"cran" is commonly confused with "cru", "cri", "CRS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "cran"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cran" is \kʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "cran" come from?

"cran" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cran", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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